Steam washing device.



PATENTBD NOV. 17. 19 03.

. M. GLASS. STEAM WASHING DEVICE.

APPLIOATIOHIILBD FEB. 28. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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Patented November 17,1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

MARIE GLASS, OF MILWAUKEE, WVISCONSIN. u

'ST'EAM'WASHING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,531, dated November17, 1903. Application filed February 28, 1903. Serial No. 145,505. (Nomodel.)

zen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county ofMilwaukee and State of Wisconsin,have invented certain new andusefullmprovements in Attachments for Washboilers; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof. 7

My invention relates to a device to be used in a washboiler for thepurpose of cleansing clothes by steam and hot water; and it consists incertain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, as willbe fully set forth hereinafter, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, and subsequently claimed.

In the said drawings,Figure l is a vertical longitudinal sectional Viewof my said device in operative position in awashboileiytaken on theplane indicated by the line 1 1 in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of thesaid device with the cover removed.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 1 indicates a washboiler ofordinary construction, having a tight-fitting cover. 2 represents a flatperforated metallic plate provided with feet 3 3, so as to be supportedupon and ing a central opening covered by a convex dome4, tightlysecured to said plate and open at its upperend, from which there rises acylindrical close-Walled steam-pipe 5, Whose upper end is formed withexterior screw-threads, as shown at 6. v

The open upper end of the pipe 5 is closed by the steam-distributor,consisting of a cylindrical cap 7, with closed top and open bottom, thelatter being formed with screwthreads 8, so that the said cap may bequickly and tightly screwed to place upon the pipe 5 bythe engagement ofthe screw-threads 6 and 8, the said cap being provided with a series ofdistributing-pipes, preferably six in number, the two pipes 9 9 being ofgreater length than the four intermediate pipes 10 10, all of said pipesextending downward, as shown, and terminating in flattened andperforated end pieces 11 11.

The operation of my device will be readily understood from the foregoingdescription of its construction, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings. When the parts have been assembled as described,the device is put within a Washboiler, so that the plate 2 forms apartial false bottom, and the space below the same is filled with soapywater; The clothes to be cleaned are thoroughly soaked and then wrappedor wound around the pipe 5, the plate 2 keeping them above the water inthe bottom of the boiler, which latter is placed upon the stove withthecover of the boiler in place and with a fire hot enough to quicklyconvert the water into steam. The steam is gathered within the dome, 4and ascends the pipe 5 to the distributer-cap 7, whose closed topdeflects the steam downward through the described pipes 9 10 and theirend perforations upon and through the clothes. As the steam condensesand escapes through the clothes down to the bottom of the boiler in theform of water it is again converted into steam and again forced up andthrough the clothes, thereby circulating in this manner repeatedly, andeach time forcing dirt out of the clothes until they are clean. Thetight cover of the boiler guards against any escape of steam into theroom,

thus adding to the comfort of the user, and when the clothes are cleanand ready to be removed the cover is first taken off the boiler and thenthe cap 7 is unscrewedand the clothes pulled upward off the pipe 5.Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is l 1. In an attachment for washboilers, thecombination with a perforated flat horizontal plate provided with legsand having a central opening, of a central steam-gathering convex dome,having an open upper end, a cylindrical close-walled steam-pipe risingfrom said dome, and the upper end of said pipe being screw-threaded aclosed-top cap formed with screw-threads at its lower cylindrical endfor engagement with the threads on said steam-pipe, and a series ofpipes of difierent lengths projecting downwardly from said cap, andterminating in flattened perforated end pieces.

2. The combination with a washboiler of greater length than width, and aclose-fitting cover, of a flat horizontal perforated plate ofcorrespondingly greater length than Width, formed with a centralopening, and having downward-extendinglegs to rest on the boilerbottom,and a convex steam-gathering opentopped dome rising from the edge wallof the said central opening, but otherwise free from any projections orattachments, in combination with a cylindrical close-walled steampipe,rising from the said dome, and open at each end; a steam-distributercomprising a closed-top and open-bottom cap, of same diameter as that ofthe said steam-pipe and removably secured to the top thereof, andprovided with a series of downwardly-projecting pipes, two of which areof greater length than the others and extend toward the ends of theboiler, while the shorter intermediate pipes project radially toward thesides of the boiler, and all of said pipes terminating in flattenedreduced ends, closed save forseries of perforations therethrough.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, atMilwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in thepresence of two witnesses.

MARIE GLASS.

Witnesses:

H. G. UNDERWOOD, JOHN HOTH.

